Farmers need urgent support to plant in the coming weeks.

New FAO/EBRD report shows pathways for decarbonizing agrifood systems.

Five countries will benefit from projects focusing on biodiversity and water security.

Urgent, timely and at-scale humanitarian interventions and livelihood support needed to avert an impending hunger crisis.

FAO Chief Economist, Máximo Torero, spoke at the Meeting on Transition from Relief to Development, ahead of the Economic and Social Council Humanitarian Affairs Segment (ECOSOC HAS). Preceding the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS) taking place from 21 to 23 June, today’s ECOSOC annual meeting on the...

FAO Director-General addressed Members of the FAO Council today, wrapping up the 170th Session of the executive organ of the FAO Conference.

Interview with Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s Resilience Team Leader for East Africa, and Carla Mucavi, FAO Country Representative in Kenya.

The two Thematic Strategies will guide FAO’s work in these areas until 2031.

$195 million emergency project aims to provide critical life-saving and livelihood assistance to smallholder farmers.

Director-General hails “extraordinary” efforts made by Members, staff and partners as FAO readies for “next normal”.

FAO flags risks to food security from high food and agricultural input prices.

FAO Director-General participates along with dozens of ministers in summit to tackle higher prices for food, fertilizer and fuel.

FAO delivered a statement from the floor during the UN ECOSOC Management Segment today, alluding to the critical work of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and the UN Nutrition network.  Today saw the meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Management Segment, convened to discuss and integrate key...

Food insecurity and malnutrition worsen across Somalia as risk of famine increases amid historic fourth failed rainy season.

FAO Director-General highlights challenges and opportunities facing the sector at COFI Sub-Committee on Fish Trade.

In a virtual briefing from New York to Member States and humanitarian partners on the situation on Mali, FAO categorically stressed the need to make agriculture and livelihood support a priority. Support is urgently needed to restore food production at the household and community levels, FAO said at today’s humanitarian briefing...

Conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks, the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and the ripple effects from the war in Ukraine push millions of people in countries across the world into poverty and hunger.

Statement by Dr. QU Dongyu on this year's theme “Only One Earth” calling for “sustainable living in harmony with nature”.  

At a press briefing today from New York, journalists heard from Máximo Torero, FAO Chief Economist, who spoke on the Food Price Index update for May and its implications for world food commodity markets ahead. World food commodity prices saw a modest decline in May, says the latest update of the FAO...

Benchmark measure shows international prices for vegetable oils and dairy products down, while up for wheat, rice and poultry meat.